Posts tagged with "Swiss Hockey"

According to news reports overnight, Charlotte Checkers forward and Carolina Hurricanes prospect Derek Ryan has been looking into taking his promising talent to the European hockey leagues.
According to SwissHockeyNews, and the Swedish newspaper Expressen, the 5'11'', 170lb centerman, who played in the Austrian and Swedish leagues...

HC Gèneve-Servette has managed to defend its Spengler-Cup title in the last day of the year 2014. Thus, the team coached by Chris McSorley won all the games in the tournament and managed to repeat its success of the previous year. HC Gèneve-Servette defeated the co-finalists, HC Salavat Yalaev (Ufa, Russia) twice. They did so in the...

The IIHF World Championships 2013 in Sweden and Finland have so far been a dream for Switzerland. The Swiss, led by Canadian head coach Sean Simpson, have so far dominated the Championships with three games played.
It all began for the team on May 3rd, with Switzerland facing off against Sweden. Despite being the underdogs, the...

For the past few months Swiss hockey news focused on North American players in the Swiss NLA. Now that the the lockout is over, let's focus some attention on Swiss players playing in the NHL.
Damien Brunner
Brunner was a relative unknown to hockey fans until debuting in a Red Wings jersey only days ago. Despite being unknown in...

December 11th is Mark Streit’s 35th birthday. The final year of his contract with the New York Islanders, the captain has found you can go home again as he’s kept himself in game shape by playing for SC Bern of the Swiss A league.
Originally from Switzerland, the offensive defensemen made a quite career as a dependable...

Ambri Piotta of the top-tier Swiss NLA hockey league has signed Canucks goaltender Cory Schneider until the end of December with the option of a longer deal depending on the the result of NHL lockout talks in the coming weeks.
The news, as reported by Swiss newspaper 20min.ch, came as no surprise due to Schneider's dual American-Swiss...

With the NHL lockout now in place, rumblings in the Swiss media have begun about the influx of NHL players into the Swiss NLA. In 2004/5, the NLA saw around 43 NHL players join the league including the likes of Dany Heatley, Danny Brière, Joe Thornton and Rick Nash.
Speculation began early Sunday via the Swiss online/print media...

Last April the ZSC Lions wrote a remarkable Hockey story, coming off a difficult regular season where they finished 7th overall, they swept championship favourites HC Davos and EV Zug in the first two playoff rounds, then defeated SC Bern in a thrilling 7 game series, winning their first Swiss NLA championship since 2008.
This feat...

The ZSC Lions have won the Swiss Championship in a frantic finish to the playoff final series, taking Game 7 against SC Bern with a Steve McCarthy goal 3 seconds before the end of regulation for a famous 2-1 victory and securing the Zurich club's first championship since 2008.
The series started evenly with Bern winning the first...

The NLA playoffs in Switzerland usually provide some surprises and 2011/2012 has been no different. The ZSC Lions, who finished 7th overall in the regular season with 27 wins and 23 losses in 50 games, have swept not only last years' NLA champion HC Davos but also this years' regular season champion EV Zug, remaining undefeated on their...

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